'Doctors told me it was just growing pains. My gut instinct was right all along'
For weeks, Mason Payne kept complaining of pain in his legs – but his mum Lauren was repeatedly told not to worry. Doctors ...
Burning Sensation in Woman's Legs Caused by Brain Worms She Got on a Three-Week Vacation
A woman returned from a three-week vacation and started noticing a strange burning sensation in her legs. She visited multiple doctors until being diagnosed with "rat lungworm," a parasite spread by ...
Burning in woman’s legs turned out to be slug parasites migrating to her brain
In a case report published in the New England Journal of Medicine, doctors explain how they figured out the source of her fiery symptoms—worms burrowing into her brain. By this point, she was alert ...